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NES: Engineering Design Challenge:
Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
Presented by: Marti Phipps
February 29, 2012
ENGINEERING
DESIGN CHALLENGE
LUNAR PLANT GROWTH CHAMBER
Presented by Marti Phipps
Grade Level: 4 - 8
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Lunar_Plant_Growth_Chamber.html
Video
STS - 118
What do we know about the moon?
What do we know about the moon?
What is the approximate distance from Earth to the moon?
What do we know about the moon?
What is the approximate distance from Earth to the moon?
How long are the days and nights?
What do we know about the moon?
What is the approximate distance from Earth to the moon?
How long are the days and nights?
Is there water on the moon?
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
/video/index.cfm?id=10
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1014#fragment-2
Let’s pause for questions
from the audience.
Lunar Farming
y How do you grow plants
on the moon?
y And how do you start a
farm on the surface of the
moon?
Why a Plant Chamber?
y Allows plants to grow in a controlled environment
y Plants will play an important role in allowing
humans to explore the moon and Mars
Materials Needed
y Education guides
y Miscellaneous material to construct the plant
chamber (now would be a good time to clean out
your cabinets)
y Seeds
Engineering
Design
Challenge
STEP 1:
Define Problem
STEP 2:
STEP 8:
Identify
Criteria/Constraints
Refine the Design
STEP 3:
STEP 7:
Brainstorm
Solutions
Share the Solution
STEP 4:
STEP 6:
Test/Evaluate the
Solution
Select a Solution
STEP 5:
Construct a
Prototype or Model
Step 1:
Identify
Problem
Design and create a
model or prototype of a
plant growth chamber
for an extreme
environment.
Step 2:
Identify
Criteria &
Constraints
Extension Activity
Phototropism vs. Geotropism
Web search
y http://resources.yesicanscience.ca/iss07/experiment1.pdf
Objective
y To determine which “tropism” dominates,
phototropism or geotropism, in a growing plant
http://corecatalog.nasa.gov/item.cfm?num=300.0-83A
Step 3:
Brainstorm
Solutions
Let’s pause for questions
from the audience.
Step 4:
Generate
Ideas
Step 5:
Construct
Prototype/
Model
Step 6:
Test/Evaluate
Solution
Step 7:
Share
Solution
Step 8:
Refine the
Design
Check it out:
Web search
http://www.raft.net/
http://www.trashforteaching.org/
Let’s pause for questions
from the audience.
How Can You Use This?
Enter your ideas in the chat.
Elementary
y Moon Munchies -- Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
(Grades K-4)
y Moon Power -- Energy and Power (Grades 1-5)
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topna
v/materials/listbytype/HEP_Moon.html
Middle School
y Lunar Colonization -- Energy and Power (Grade 6)
y Creating a Space Exploration Infrastructure -Transportation (Grade 7)
y Space Transportation: Reshooting the Moon -Transportation (Grade 8)
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topna
v/materials/listbytype/Packing_Up_for_the_Moon.ht
ml
High School
y Engineering Design for Human Exploration -Energy and Power (Grades 9-12)
y Lunar Plant Growth Chamber (Grades 9-12)
y NASA: Moving Cargo -- Transportation (Grade 9)
y Transportation and Space: Reuse and Recycle -Transportation (Grades 10-12)
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topna
v/materials/listbytype/Lunar_Plant_Growth_Chamb
er.html
Extensions
Water Filtration Challenge
y http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_
seminars/NES2/webseminar19.aspx
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov
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